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While growing up inside a prison leads to a range of difficulties for children, those separated from their mothers and left on the outside also face different traumas. In this in-depth reportage for India's The Wire, journalist Sukanya Shantha talks to mothers who had to give birth in jail and those who went without seeing their children for years to keep them protected.
While growing up inside a prison leads to a range of difficulties for children, those separated from their mothers and left on the outside too face different traumas.
For many years, Lois Ahrens has been pushing to change the nation’s prison system. The Northampton activist, who heads the Real Cost of Prisons Project, has worked with fellow activists, artists, researchers and incarcerated people to try to end...
In April 2018 amid much self-congratulation, Massachusetts legislators passed into law the so-called Criminal Justice Reform Act.In addition to other sections of the law that have not been enacted and enforced was a provision requiring sheriffs and...
Despite the false characterization of those of us who organize and advocate for the decarceration of people incarcerated at the Hampshire County jail during COVID-19 as voicing (“Inmate lauds sheriff during pandemic,” Aug. 17) “verbal hysteria” and...